{ "id": "1010.4355", "version": "v1", "published": "2010-10-21T03:06:44.000Z", "updated": "2010-10-21T03:06:44.000Z", "title": "Characterizations of Student's t-distribution via regressions of order statistics", "authors": [ "George P. Yanev", "M. Ahsanullah" ], "comment": "To appear in \"Statistics\"", "doi": "10.1080/02331888.2010.535904", "categories": [ "math.PR", "math.ST", "stat.TH" ], "abstract": "Utilizing regression properties of order statistics, we characterize a family of distributions introduced by Akhundov, Balakrishnan, and Nevzorov (2004), that includes the t-distribution with two degrees of freedom as one of its members. Then we extend this characterization result to t-distribution with more than two degrees of freedom.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2010-10-21T03:06:44.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "62G30", "62E10" ], "keywords": [ "order statistics", "students t-distribution", "utilizing regression properties", "characterization result", "balakrishnan" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2010arXiv1010.4355Y" } } }